Ian Blair
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The Right Honourable The Lord Blair of Boughton QPM |
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| Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis | |
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In office 1 January 2005 – 1 December 2008 |
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| Deputy | Sir Paul Stephenson |
| Preceded by | Sir John Stevens |
| Succeeded by | Sir Paul Stephenson |
| Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis | |
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In office 2000–2005 |
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| Preceded by | Sir John Stevens |
| Succeeded by | Sir Paul Stephenson |
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Ian Warwick Blair 19 March 1953 Chester, Cheshire, England |
| Profession | Speaker, writer and consultant on strategic policing, leadership and security Police officer (1974–2008) |
| Religion | Anglican |
Ian Warwick Blair, Baron Blair of Boughton, QPM (born 19 March 1953) is a retired British policeman who held the position of Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 2005 to 2008 and was the highest-ranking officer within the Metropolitan Police Service.
He joined the Metropolitan Police in 1974 under a graduate scheme, and served 10 years in London. As deputy chief constable of Thames Valley Police, he handled the protests over the construction of the Newbury bypass, and then became chief constable of Surrey Police, before being appointed deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, and then commissioner in January 2005. His term of office saw the mistaken shooting of suspected suicide-bomber Jean Charles de Menezes, which resulted in contradictory police reports, and his comments on race caused some controversy among ethnic police officers.
In October 2008 he announced that he would step down from the post in December after disagreements with Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London. Blair was appointed as a crossbench life peer in July 2010.
Ian Blair was born in Chester to Jim and Sheila Blair in 1953. His father spent most of his career working for Lever Brothers, eventually rising to manage the dock at Port Sunlight in Merseyside. His mother was from Sheffield and her father had made a living as a steel merchant until he suffered major losses in the Great Depression in the 1930s. Both Blair and his brother, six years his senior, were sent to independent school at the expense of one of their father's brothers, who was a successful doctor. Blair's brother, Sandy, left school early to work for a solicitors' firm.
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